SuitabookIdentity and family stories
Sawyer has never known her father’s identity, receives a conditional opportunity to investigate it, and reassesses accounts of her family’s past.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Author
A fast-moving YA mystery with a wry protagonist, social commentary and an extravagant Southern setting. It combines questions about identity and family with secrets, revenge and danger beneath formal manners.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA fast-moving YA mystery with a wry protagonist, social commentary and an extravagant Southern setting. It combines questions about identity and family with secrets, revenge and danger beneath formal manners.
Sawyer has never known her father’s identity, receives a conditional opportunity to investigate it, and reassesses accounts of her family’s past.
Sawyer enters Southern debutante events for a financial reward, finding an outwardly civil world containing darker secrets and powerful people.
A customer makes sexualised remarks to Sawyer at the garage, and she responds sharply while referencing access to tools and vehicle systems.
Expect references to sexual harassment, an antagonistic or threatening social environment, family estrangement and unreliable caregiving.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Extract | Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Penguin Books Australia
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